Awesome new trailer for ONLY GOD FORGIVES (starring Ryan Gosling)

[KlokWyze]

I was pumped for Drive, but it was just shit. Complete shit. The soundtrack was offensively bad as well. WTF. I'd honestly say it was one of the most disappointing movies I have ever seen.

 

[HendrixFan]

Drive was the best movie in 2011, though admittedly it wasn't a great year for movies.

I missed the advanced screening for Only God Forgives a week or two ago here in town and I've been kicking myself over it. The director and composer were there answering questions.

I'm pumped to see it though!

 

[olds]

Watched Drive after seeing this thread today.
That was a long, drawn out boring mess. WTH was the director going for or is Gosling just stupid and stoned all the time?

 

[el-Capitan]

Gosling just stupid and stoned all the time?

haha. too funny. those were exactly my thoughts when i watched it. : )

 

[phucheneh]

I don't get the appeal of Ryan Gosling. Every single woman I know swoons over that dude. He's not a good actor, and I could probably walk into an Outback Steakhouse or something and find a better-looking dude waiting tables.

...not to be gay or anything. I can judge man if I want. SHUTTUP.

 

[clamum]

Drive is pretty good, I'll have to watch it again one of these days.

I didn't have the volume up much watching the trailer for Only God Forgives but I had no real idea what it was about until I read the summary, haha. Hmmm, I might check it out. Definitely when it comes out for renting but maybe at the theater.

 

[n7]

Looks like something i will be watching.

 

[KaOTiK]

Hated Drive. For most of the movie I wasn't sure if the character was suppose to mentally touched or if Gossling was. Always had that derp blank expression on his face.

 

[KlokWyze]

Drive was the best movie in 2011, though admittedly it wasn't a great year for movies.

I missed the advanced screening for Only God Forgives a week or two ago here in town and I've been kicking myself over it. The director and composer were there answering questions.

I'm pumped to see it though!

I'm genuinely wondering what you found "good" about this movie. I love Cranston & Perlman. Gosling is a decent enough actor, but there was just no character development, except for maybe Cranston's. I actually love films that tend to not focus even on dialogue or action (think There Will Be Blood)..., but the style of this film is just... well, shit.

 

[Zeze]

Hated Drive. For most of the movie I wasn't sure if the character was suppose to mentally touched or if Gossling was. Always had that derp blank expression on his face.

I'm genuinely wondering what you found "good" about this movie. I love Cranston & Perlman. Gosling is a decent enough actor, but there was just no character development, except for maybe Cranston's. I actually love films that tend to not focus even on dialogue or action (think There Will Be Blood)..., but the style of this film is just... well, shit.

I had an okay time watching Drive. I appreciated its artsy-ness.

That being said, I want to hate it so much because of pretentious noobs praising this overrated garbage way too high all the time.

Gosling has nothing but a wooden plank look on his face. I'm sick and tired of this no-effort 'cool' guy routine.

For what its worth, Place Beyond the Pines was a much better Gosling movie. He actually showed bit of range than staring into the camera all the time.

 

[Zeze]

I'm genuinely wondering what you found "good" about this movie. I love Cranston & Perlman. Gosling is a decent enough actor, but there was just no character development, except for maybe Cranston's. I actually love films that tend to not focus even on dialogue or action (think There Will Be Blood)..., but the style of this film is just... well, shit.

There will be Blood had fvckton of memorable dialogue.

 

[Doppel]

drive is one of the most overrated movies in history. and ryan gossling is a terrible actor. his soft pussy voice in gangster squad made me laugh a bunch when he was trying to be tough.

Drive was a piece of painstaking trash.

However, I like Ryan in the right role. This movie has potential, but only if it's not completely worthless and boring like Drive.

And Ryan can act? His face is like a plank of wood. All day.

Actually now that you mention it I agree completely.

 

[Crono]

I had an okay time watching Drive. I appreciated its artsy-ness.

That being said, I want to hate it so much because of pretentious noobs praising this overrated garbage way too high all the time.

Gosling has nothing but a wooden plank look on his face. I'm sick and tired of this no-effort 'cool' guy routine.

For what its worth, Place Beyond the Pines was a much better Gosling movie. He actually showed bit of range than staring into the camera all the time.

A lot of people seemed to miss the point of Drive. It's not that Gosling can't act (he seemed just fine in The Notebook and Remember the Titans, though admittedly it has been a while since I've seen either). He was intentionally a faceless (remember the mask?) and nameless (never find out his real name) sort of a character. You get the impression that he has a dark past, especially with how quick he turns on the ultra violence switch when forced to, and his strong aversion to going against his own rules. His brevity seems to be a result of not wanting to share anything - there's virtually nothing we learn about who he is.

Part of that I think is the writer/director wanting us to feel that he could be any one of us, a near silent protagonist who we can almost relate to due to the fact that his life history isn't written out in detail. "Drive" refers both to the obvious fact that he is a driver, but also (and to a greater extent) that it's his "drive", his motivation that we follow; it's what turns a light romance story into an action drama, what makes a seemingly simple person go on a bloody quest, one that doesn't end peacefully and yet somehow does.

The sequel to the book - which apparently won't be made into a movie, at least not by Refn or starring Gosling, since they've said they aren't interested now - supposedly explains a lot of Driver's backstory, but I haven't read it yet.

I think his role in The Place Beyond the Pines required greater variety from him, but not by much. I think he's being typecast now, but it fits him fairly well. Bradley Cooper was pretty good in that movie, too.

 

[Zeze]

LOL Anandtech. Just 6 months ago I was flamed from you guys when I thought Drive was a 'wtf this is it?' movie

 

[Zeze]

He was intentionally a faceless (remember the mask?) and nameless (never find out his real name) sort of a character. You get the impression that he has a dark past, especially with how quick he turns on the ultra violence switch when forced to, and his strong aversion to going against his own rules. His brevity seems to be a result of not wanting to share anything - there's virtually nothing we learn about who he is.

No offense, but I hate this over-glorification of a movie that's mediocre at best.

The lone cool mysterious hero routine is long past tired. Bourne anyone? It had that exact shtick to the letter. And with better range.

I don't dislike Drive. It's not some incredibly deep movie to 'get'. Stop it.

Talking about the wooden plank look- jesus christ, now he's not even trying anymore:

 

[Zeze]

I think his role in The Place Beyond the Pines required greater variety from him, but not by much. I think he's being typecast now, but it fits him fairly well. Bradley Cooper was pretty good in that movie, too.

Totally forgot about Cooper in that movie. Now HE stole the movie, and that's a man who can act- from Limitless to Silver Lining.

 

[zinfamous]

Now that critics hate it, will the people who hated drive for being overrated start to like it?

It's inevitable. 😀

 

[zinfamous]

The only way I can best describe what appears to be its own little genre cropping up--These Gosling, Refn, brooding and tragic existentialist anti-hero studies--is a contemporary American version of French New Wave.

I don't know...maybe you guys need more Truffaut or Goddard in your lives and this stuff might make sense to you. Or maybe not--you'd probably still hate it and go OMG overrated! while at the same bitching that Hollywood can't make anything but CRAP and just rehashes the same story over and over and reboots old content, all the while wishing they could make movies like, I don't know, Shawshank Redemption because for some reason many of you seem to think that one is actually worth talking about at any length.


etc.

 

[zinfamous]

Totally forgot about Cooper in that movie. Now HE stole the movie, and that's a man who can act- from Limitless to Silver Lining.

Yeah, Bradly Cooper was good in that.

I agree that Gosling seems to be playing this same character these days. I wish he would go back to Half Nelson (maybe the first version of this role--but at least a likable one) and Lars and the Real Girl.

 

[Albatross]

Here comes again the director of close-ups of stoned faces for 10 minutes with tense music and a bit of violence makes for a good movie.

 

[Doppel]

LOL Anandtech. Just 6 months ago I was flamed from you guys when I thought Drive was a 'wtf this is it?' movie

I think I was, too, but that movie was a real turd.